Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
18 Hour(s) 2 Minute(s)
Language
English
Rating
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Course Overview
Develop your first decentralized application from scratch on the Ethereum blockchain with Solidity
February 2018 Update
We released the first version of this course in September 2017. Back then, the latest version of Truffle was version 3, and the best Ethereum node emulator was testrpc, on the command line.
Then, in November 2017, the Truffle team released both Truffle 4 and a new user interface for testrpc called Ganache. Those tools had a big impact on the development lifecycle, so we took this opportunity to completely rewrite and re-shoot the practical part of this course.
We also took this opportunity to integrate most of the comments and feedbacks we got in the Q&A section of this course. So all the details you needed to troubleshoot issues are now part of the content.
This results in a consequent update with quite a few improvements:
- Full Truffle 4 coverage, including Truffle debug and Truffle develop
- Full Ganache coverage
- MetaMask workarounds, tips and tricks
- All the content has been tested on MacOS, Linux and Windows (PowerShell)
- Code is not copy-pasted anymore, we type everything live to make it easier to follow along
Note that the old content will remain online for a few weeks, and then we will unpublish them so that students don't need to watch all the old content to complete the course and get the Udemy certificate.
If you notice any issue, bug, outdated content, missing link or resource, please let us know in the Q&A section of this course.
Welcome to "Become a Blockchain Developer with Ethereum and Solidity"!
This course is a complete introduction to decentralized application (Dapp) development on the Ethereum blockchain using the Solidity language and the Truffle build framework.
No need to know anything about the blockchain, you should just have some basic software development experience. Whether you have already written some code for backend, web or mobile applications, it should be enough to become a blockchain developer thanks to this course.
The blockchain is all the rage these days, and there is a lot of theoretical or anticipative talk around it, but this course will help you get your hands dirty with actual code in order to build your first decentralized application. This is the kind of skill that can get you an actual job as a blockchain developer, something that is in skyrocketing demand right now.
Have you ever looked back on the nineties, thinking you would have loved to be a part of the web revolution. Well, stop dreaming: the blockchain is here and it promises to be even bigger than the web or even the mobile revolution.
What we cover
- We briefly cover the philosophy of the blockchain, both as a crypto-currency system and as a development platform
- Then we will explain how blockchains work, what are their main components and how its ecosystem is structured
- After that we quickly go over the main cryptographic tools you need to understand
- We continue with a description of the perfect development environment, including tools that are used by most professional blockchain developers
- And the biggest part of the course is dedicated to guiding you through the iterative creation, development, testing and deployment of the ChainList decentralized application
The tools we use
- Ethereum of course
- The Metamask Chrome extension
- The Solidity smart contract language
- The Truffle build and test framework (Truffle 4)
- The Ganache Ethereum node emulator
- Github Pages
- Atom (text editor)
- The Rinkeby test network
We deliberately don't reinvent the wheel or develop our own build tools because it didn't seem very pragmatic to do that. That's why we demonstrate the use of development tools like Truffle and Ganache that offer a lot of very powerful features, even though they evolve very often.
Most of the videos were shot on a Mac, but we give detailed instructions on how to set up your environment on Linux and Windows, and all the other lessons have been tested and adapted with a few OS-specific instructions.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 95 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Commencez ici
- Section 2 Why the Blockchain?
- Section 3 What is a blockchain (and what it's not)?
- Section 4 Cryptography 101
- Section 5 Installing the Development Environment (Truffle 4)
- Section 6 My First Smart Contract: Greetings (Truffle 4)
- Section 7 How do you design and develop a decentralized application? (Truffle 4)
- Section 8 Truffle 5 Update
- Section 9 Conclusion
- Section 10 Bonus
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the basic philosophy behind the blockchain and distributed/decentralized applications, The basics of how a blockchain generally works, just enough to be able to use it as a development platform, Develop a web3 app, create a project, deploy it in production, write smart contracts, unit test them, and create a user interface for them, How to combine the right tools to put together a consistent and real world pragmatic development environment, The fundamentals of the Solidity smart contract language, How to use the Truffle build and testing framework (covers Truffle 4), How to deploy a decentralized app to various Ethereum instances (testrpc, private chain, test chain, main net), How to unit test smart contracts
Reviews
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YYiannis Michael
The course is not updated for the latest updates in Truffle, Solidity and Web3.js. It does not update the older lessons with fixes but instead assumes that you have written everything already and then shows you how to update from Truffle 4 to Truffle 5. Even in the videos where this update is shown, some files are different from what you have previously written. My guess is that some videos were removed to only show the update. Questions are also not being answered on the Q&A section. The creators of this course also send you to purchase their new interactive eBook instead of updating the course with new material. I have learned a lot from this course. It is very well structured and the material is delivered in a great and concise way. I was forced to figure out version conflicts, bug fixes, PowerShell commands, and a variety of errors using StackOverflow or by myself, which was a huge waste of time. Without that I would guess that I would have finished this course in half the time. With all that in mind, 2.5 stars is deserved since I learned something but I wouldn't reccomend this course to someone who wants to learn the most recent way to write Smart Contracts.
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KKunal Kishore
Well this is the end of course review from me, and I had to admit that this course is awesome Sebastien is amazing, they keep updating the course, and Sebastien is very responsive, it was an amazing ride to understand the backend concept of a fully developed dapp with a simple front end. It explained how simply things work in smart contracts how to deploy front end how to write the call back functions and test suites for your smart contract, how to deploy to public test net , own private test net, the in-memory blockchain ganache and why should we do all kinds of testing before deployment to the main net. Overall this course deserves to be 5 star rating course on smart contract. Thank you Sebastien,
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MMongetro Goint
It's a very great course for all who want to become a blockchain developer with Ethereum. Congratulations!
